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In Praise of Nepotism: A History of Family Enterprise from King David to George W. Bush
ISBN: 9780385493895 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nepotism is one of those social habits we all claim to deplore in America; it offends our sense of fair play and our pride in living in a meritocracy. But somehow nepotism prevails; we all want to help our own and a quick glance around reveals any number of successful families whose sons and daughters have gone on to accomplish objectively great things, even if they got a little help from their parents.
In this wide-ranging, surprising, and eloquently argued book, Adam Bellow takes a pragmatic and erudite look at the innate human inclination toward nepotism. From ancient Chinese clans to... Nepotism is one of those social habits we all claim to deplore in America; it offends our sense of fair play and our pride in living in a meritocracy....
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83,19 zł |
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Food in the Ancient World from A to Z
ISBN: 9780415232593 / Angielski / Twarda / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sensual yet pre-eminently functional, food is of intrinsic interest to us all. This exciting new work by a leading authority explores food and related concepts in the Greek and Roman worlds. In entries ranging from a few lines to a couple of pages, Andrew Dalby describes individual foodstuffs (such as catfish, gazelle, peaches and parsley), utensils, ancient writers on food, and a vast range of other topics, drawn from classical literature, history and archaeology, as well as looking at the approaches of modern scholars. Sensual yet pre-eminently functional, food is of intrinsic interest to us all. This exciting new work by a leading authority explores food and rela... |
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578,26 zł |
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Food and Cultural Studies
ISBN: 9780415270380 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What and how we eat are two of the most persistent choices we face in everyday life. Whatever we decide on though, and however mundane our decisions may seem, they will be inscribed with information both about ourselves and about our positions in the world around us. Yet, food has only recently become a significant and coherent area of inquiry for cultural studies and the social sciences.
What and how we eat are two of the most persistent choices we face in everyday life. Whatever we decide on though, and however mundane our decisions m...
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709,67 zł |
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Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe: A Functional Study of Nutrition Among the Southern Bantu
ISBN: 9780415320115 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe examines the cultural aspects of food and eating among the Southern Bantu, taking as its starting point the bold statement 'nutrition as a biological process is more fundamental than sex'. When it was first published in 1932, with a preface by Malinowski, it laid the groundwork for sociological theory of nutrition. Richards was also among the first anthropologists to establish women's lives and the social sphere as legitimate subjects for anthropological study.
Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe examines the cultural aspects of food and eating among the Southern Bantu, taking as its starting point the...
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231,25 zł |
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Ritual and Event: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415701815 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. This collection reassesses and revises traditionally understood relationships between ritual and politics, ritual and everyday life, ritual and art making, and ritual and disaster. The methodologies as well as the subject matter are interdisciplinary: they range from the anthropological to the art and dance historical, from the theatrical and literary to the linguistic, philosophical, and psychoanalytic. It will be a valuable tool for scholars of Theater and Performance Studies, as well as Anthropology,... Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. This collection reassesses and revises traditionally understo... |
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762,24 zł |
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The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece
ISBN: 9780415901239 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on new anthropological approaches, John Winkler considers the lives of men and women in Ancient Greece. This book should be of interest to advanced students in classics, anthropology and women's studies.
Drawing on new anthropological approaches, John Winkler considers the lives of men and women in Ancient Greece. This book should be of interest to adv...
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210,22 zł |
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Prom Night: Youth, Schools and Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780415924283 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Best shows us that, while the prom is often trivialized, most kids take the prom seriously. The prom is a space where kids work through their understanding of authority, social class, gender norms, and multicultural schooling. Proms are more than just pictures and puffed sleeves--they are a mythic part of youth culture and, for better or worse, will always be a night to remember.
Best shows us that, while the prom is often trivialized, most kids take the prom seriously. The prom is a space where kids work through their understa...
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199,71 zł |
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Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies
ISBN: 9780415930772 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Featuring the work of some of the most established scholars in the food studies field, this volume looks at the connections between food, culture, and commerce. The essays in the collection pick at what we eat for all its ideological and political implications, such as Foodscapes in Los Angeles, the politics of the California avocado, or the cultural subtext of baby food.
Featuring the work of some of the most established scholars in the food studies field, this volume looks at the connections between food, culture, and...
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199,71 zł |
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Food in the USA : A Reader
ISBN: 9780415932318 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Thanksgiving to fast food to anorexia nervosa, this volume brings together essential reading on these topics and is a substantial collection of essays on food and culture in America. The broad range of essay topics include: the corporate food industry, soup kitchens, meateating, fast food, waitressing, Coca-Cola, Aunt Jemima, the Passover Seder, soul food, diabetes and nutrition. Together, the collection provides an interesting look at how and why we are what we eat.
From Thanksgiving to fast food to anorexia nervosa, this volume brings together essential reading on these topics and is a substantial collection of e...
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867,37 zł |
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Food in the USA: A Reader
ISBN: 9780415932325 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Thanksgiving to fast food to anorexia nervosa, this title brings together useful reading on these topics and is a substantial collection of essays on food and culture in America. The broad range of essay topics include: the corporate food industry, soup kitchens, meat-eating, fast food, waitressing, Coca-Cola, Aunt Jemima, the Passover Seder, soul food, diabetes and nutrition. Together, the collection provides an interesting look at how and why we are what we eat.
From Thanksgiving to fast food to anorexia nervosa, this title brings together useful reading on these topics and is a substantial collection of essay...
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378,44 zł |
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The Book of Tea
ISBN: 9780486200705 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kakuzo Okakura, who was known in America as a scholar, art critic, and Curator of Chinese and Japanese Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, directed almost his entire adult life toward the preservation and reawakening of the Japanese national heritage -- in art, ethics, social customs, and other areas of life -- in the face of the Westernizing influences that were revolutionizing Japan around the turn of the century.
This modern classic is essentially an apology for Eastern traditions and feelings to the Western world -- not in passionate, oversentimental terms, but with a charm and... Kakuzo Okakura, who was known in America as a scholar, art critic, and Curator of Chinese and Japanese Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, directed...
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25,88 zł |
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Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780520203549 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wolfgang Schivelbusch tells the story of the development of artificial light in the nineteenth century. Not simply a history of a technology, Disenchanted Night revelas the ways that the technology of artificial illumination helped forge modern consciousness. In his strikingly illustrated and lively narrative, Schivelbusch discusses a range of subject including the political symbolism of streetlamps, the rise of nightlife and the shopwindow, and the importance of the salon in bourgeois culture.
Wolfgang Schivelbusch tells the story of the development of artificial light in the nineteenth century. Not simply a history of a technology, Disencha...
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134,58 zł |
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Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico
ISBN: 9780520227910 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deidre Sklar went to Tortugas, New Mexico, where an annual three-day fiesta honors the Virgin of Guadalupe, in order to seek answers to her questions about community, performance, and the embodiment of belief. How do we know what we know? Where do we belong, and how do we fit in? Sklar's own background and learned values form the conscious, constantly challenged raw material for the undertaking, and the intimate language of the body and sensation is her medium. Her ten-year study and movement analysis of the sacred dances and the "backstage" work involved in the festival take her deep into...
Deidre Sklar went to Tortugas, New Mexico, where an annual three-day fiesta honors the Virgin of Guadalupe, in order to seek answers to her questions ...
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183,76 zł |
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Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Dietvolume 7
ISBN: 9780520234390 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of how from 1880 to 1930, as America's industries and cities swelled, various reformers tried to use the new nutritional science to make Americans eat more economically and healthily, sometimes with bizarre results. In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of how from 1880 to 1930, as America's industries and cities swelled, various r... |
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166,01 zł |
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Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Weddingvolume 2
ISBN: 9780520240087 / Angielski / Miękka / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture--romantic love and excessive consumption. For anyone who has ever wondered about the meanings behind a white dress, a diamond ring, rice, and traditions such as cake cutting, bouquet tossing, and honeymooning, this book offers an entertaining and enlightening look at the historical, social, and psychological strains that come together to make the lavish wedding the most important...
The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage...
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220,54 zł |
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The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness and Honour
ISBN: 9780521025201 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arguments about the practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. Markku Peltonen, the distinguished intellectual historian, examines the debate, and reveals how the moral and ideological status of duelling was considered within a much broader cultural context of courtesy, civility and politeness. Understanding the duel involves knowing crucial issues in the cultural and ideological history of Stuart England. Peltonen's wide-ranging study engages the attention of a significant audience of historians and cultural and literary scholars.
Arguments about the practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. Markku Peltonen, the distinguished intellectual historian, examines ...
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244,84 zł |
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Eternal Victory: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the Early Medieval West
ISBN: 9780521386593 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the Roman empire declined and 'fell', contemporary glorification of the emperor's triumphal rulership reached new heights, strewing traces of the empire's perennial victory across the physical and mental landscape of late antiquity. In this, the first comprehensive study of how a great imperial ceremony actually developed and how it influenced both the eastern and western heirs to the Roman legacy, the Roman triumph's resurgence and afterlife is documented from the Tetrarchy down to the end of the Macedonian dynasty in Byzantium and down to Charlemagne's successors in the early medieval...
As the Roman empire declined and 'fell', contemporary glorification of the emperor's triumphal rulership reached new heights, strewing traces of the e...
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160,64 zł |
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Eating Out: Social Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure
ISBN: 9780521590440 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eating Out is a fascinating study of the consumption of food outside the home. Through surveys and intensive interviews carried out in England in the 1990s, the authors have collected a wealth of information into people's attitudes toward, and expectations of, eating out as a form of entertainment and an expression of taste and status. This book will be a valuable resource to academics, advanced students and practitioners in the sociology of consumption, cultural studies, tourism and hospitality, home economics, marketing and to the general reader.
Eating Out is a fascinating study of the consumption of food outside the home. Through surveys and intensive interviews carried out in England in the ...
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454,51 zł |
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Eating Out: Social Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure
ISBN: 9780521599696 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eating Out is a fascinating study of the consumption of food outside the home. Through surveys and intensive interviews carried out in England in the 1990s, the authors have collected a wealth of information into people's attitudes toward, and expectations of, eating out as a form of entertainment and an expression of taste and status. This book will be a valuable resource to academics, advanced students and practitioners in the sociology of consumption, cultural studies, tourism and hospitality, home economics, marketing and to the general reader.
Eating Out is a fascinating study of the consumption of food outside the home. Through surveys and intensive interviews carried out in England in the ...
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205,45 zł |
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Future Shock
ISBN: 9780553277371 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, the family, and society.
Examines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, the family, and society.
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43,74 zł |
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